Andy Serkis Quotes
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Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
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I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
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I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
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I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.
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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.
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Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
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Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
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Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.
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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.
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I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.